Chapter 4: Busted
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At the Catfish Club, Leo had swum in to see Flounder was already there.
"Hey Flounder." Leo waves.
"Leo, you made it." Flounder smiles.
"Yep, hey have you seen Ariel anywhere?" Leo asks looking around.
"No not yet but stick around you'll probably see her." Flounder said swimming off to sell Sea Kelp.
Leo smiles when suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning around he saw Ariel with 6 other mermaids.
"Leo!" Ariel smiles.
"Ariel." Leo smiles happy to see her.
"Whoa who's the cutie?" Adella asks.
"Uh I'm Leo, who are you?" Leo asks.
"Leo, these are my sisters." Ariel introduced.
"Wow big family. It's nice to meet you all." Leo said when the music turned on surprising all of Ariel's sisters.
"Music?"
"I know. Isn't it fantastic?! And we're here together!" Ariel said as all but Attina and Andrina.
"Wow…it's great." Attina said nervously.
"Yeah…I'm scared." Andrina admits.
"Oh thank goodness I thought I was the only one." Attina said.
"The Catfish Club is proud to present the original Rock Lobster, the one, the only Red Claw-nado!" A fish said as Sebastian took the stage.
"Sebastian?!" They both smiled instantly not feeling scared anymore and went to cheer him on which did not make his day.
As Leo was swimming around, he decided to get in on the dancing at first, he noticed Ariel nearby and decided to ask her when Adella swam up to him.
"Hi I'm Adella." She introduced.
"Hi there." Leo said.
"Want to dance?" She asks grabbing his hand.
"Uh I guess so." Leo said before Adella pulled him onto the dance floor.
As Arista heard a fish play the trumpet, she immediately became a fan and swam up to him.
Nearby Aquata was watching Leo and Adella dance when a lobster swam up to her.
"Would you like to dance?" He asks.
"No thanks." Aquata said.
With Leo and Adella, the two of them were having quite a bit of fun as he spun her around.
"Whoa where'd you learn that?" Adella giggles.
"Uh a little trick I learned back home." Leo shrugs.
"Sounds like a fun kind of place." Adella said
"Uh yeah you could say that." Leo said when he dips her.
Aquata was watching them with interest when another fish swam up to her.
"Would you like to dance?" He asks causing Aquata to growl.
"I can't dance, alright! I'm a mermaid with no grace! I look like a spastic piece of kelp!" Aquata said causing Leo to stop dancing.
Turning towards Aquata he gestures for Adella to follow him. Swimming up he takes her hand.
"Hey! Wait what are you doing?!" Aquata asks.
"You are going to dance with us." Leo said as he and Adella brought her to the dance floor.
"What? No, no I can't dance." Aquata said trying to back out of it.
"Come on Aquata it's fun." Adella said as they gestured for her to start dancing.
Slowly Aquata moved her body, but it was in crazy spastic manner causing Leo and Adella to cringe.
"Yeah she really can't dance." Adella said as Leo nods in agreement.
Swimming over to some rocks Leo sits down to rest his legs when Attina swims up and sits down next to him.
"Room for one more?" She asks.
"Sure." Leo nods.
"I'm Attina by the way. The oldest sister." She said.
"Funny I'm the oldest in my family too." Leo smirks.
"You have siblings?" Attina asks interested.
"I have a little sister she can drive me nuts but honestly I love her that way." Leo said.
"I know right. You can act anyway you want around other people but when it's around your siblings you have to be the mature one." Attina said.
"Finally someone who gets it." Leo said as the two of them start laughing.
Little did they know Marina had gone to their rooms and found their beds empty. When she went out to search for them she went through the Kelp forest to find the girls, Leo and Sebastian dancing to the music and having fun.
Grinning she saw her chance to get back at Sebastian and move up from being babysitter.
Back inside everyone was clapping as Sebastian's song came to an end.
"That was even better than yesterday." Leo smiles.
"You were right Ariel. Mom would have loved this." Attina said as all her sisters swam up and thanked her.
"Yeah thank." Arista said.
"Not to mention that boy is pretty interesting." Adella said as Ariel looked to the stage to see Leo fidgeting with the instruments.
Turning around Sebastian looks to him and grins, gesturing for the band he signals for them to go back on stage before swimming towards Leo.
"You know we might have time for one more song. Want to give it a try?" Sebastian offers.
"Me?" Leo said surprised.
"Please Leo." Ariel said as all her sisters wanted to see him sing too.
"I guess if no one minds." Leo shrugs as the crowd burst into cheers.
(Play I'm Still Here by John Rzeznik)
I am a question to the world
not and answer to be Heard
or a moment that's held in your arms
and what do you think you'd ever say
I won't listen anyway
you don't know me
and I'll never be what you want me to be
and what do you think you'd understand
I'm a boy no, I'm a man
You can't take me and throw me away
And how can you learn what's never shown
Yeah you stand here on your own
They don't know me
Cause I'm not here
And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don't feel
We want to hold on and feel I belong
And how can the world want me to change
They're the ones that stay the same
They don't know me
Cause I'm not here
And you see the things they never see
All you wanted I could be
Now you know me and I'm not afraid
And I wanna tell you who I am
Can you help me be a man
They can't break me
As long as I know who I am
They can't see me
But I'm still here
They can't tell me who to be
Cause I'm not what they see
Yeah, the world is still sleeping
While I keep on dreaming for me
And their words are just whispers and lies
That I'll never believe
And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don't feel
We want to hold on and feel I belong
And how can they say I'll never change
They're the ones that stay the same
I'm the one now
Cause I'm still here
I'm the one
Cause I'm still here
I'm still here
I'm still here
I'm still here
When his song ended everyone burst into cheers when Ariel and Flounder swam up to him.
"Leo that was beautiful." Ariel said.
"I didn't know you could sing." Flounder said.
"Well my dad used to sing to me when I was little, and I would sometimes sing to my little sister to help her fall asleep." Leo said rubbing the back of his head.
"Our mom used to do the same thing to us when we were little." Aquata said.
"Didn't realize we all had something in common." Leo said as they all nodded. "Will I see you girls here tomorrow?"
"Of course you will." Ariel smiles as Leo swam off.
"You know he's kinda cute." Adella said.
"In a different sort of way." Alana said before they all made their way back home.
"Yeah Leo's something else." Ariel said watching him with a big smile on her face.
In the throne room, Triton was sitting on his throne was Marina swam in.
"Your highness, we need to talk." Marina said getting his attention.
The next day, everyone was back at the Catfish Club dancing and having a great time together when suddenly they heard a banging on the door causing the music to stop.
Panicking all of them saw multiple swordfish break down the door and swim in.
"Jumping jellyfish!" Sebastian said as the octopus releases a cloud of ink so they could try to escape but the band, Ariel, her sisters, Flounder and Leo were trapped as King Triton entered.
"This is how you watch over my daughter?" Triton glares at Sebastian.
"Sire." Sebastian tried to calm him down.
"I trusted you. Lock them away. Lock them all away!" Triton orders as they escorted Sebastian, Flounder and the band away.
"What about this one your majesty? He's clearly not one of us." A swordfish asks looking at Leo.
Triton swims up to Leo and looks him in the eye before he noticed the magic mirror strapped to his side causing his eyes to widen.
"Where did you get this?" Triton asks grabbing the mirror.
"Hey give it back!" Leo said trying to reach for it.
"Where did you get this?!" Triton repeats.
"I-I found it." Leo said nervously as Triton examines the mirror to see it was the same one Athena always carried with her.
"So, you're not only a law breaker you're also a thief." Triton growls.
"What? No I'm not I'm—"
"Guards, throw him in the dungeon!" Triton orders as they escorted Leo out.
"Leo!" Ariel cries out but he was already gone.
"Marina, you will take over Sebastian's duties immediately." Triton said causing her to smile.
"Of course, your highness." Marina said.
"Attina, take your sisters home." Triton orders.
"Daddy, you can't do this! Leo's innocent!" Ariel said.
"It's already done!" Triton yells as he raised his trident and destroyed the Catfish Club.
Looking at Athena's mirror he holds it tightly as he swam back to Atlantica to lecture his daughters.